The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has narrowly approved Rex Tillerson as US secretary of state, despite concerns about his business ties to Russia., t split along party lines, with all 11 Republicans voting in favour and all 10 Democrats against. A full vote will now be held in the Republican-run Senate. The move capped a busy day for the...

There is no link between the situation in Ukraine and the Middle East regarding the U.S.’s economic sanctions on Russia, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday …read more Source: The Daily...

ArmInfo. According to the information of Beeline press office, the contest of Eurasia Mobile Challenge regional semi-final on January 25 will be broadcasted on the following link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVpQNRXGWes&feature=youtu.be Eurasia Mobile Challenge, which kicked off in July, is implemented within the frames of...

ArmInfo. Naira Zohrabyan, a member of the Armenian Delegation to PACE, urged Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks to react to the case of the Russian-Israeli blog writer Alexander Lapshin and to prevent his extradition from Belarus to Azerbaijan. The Armenian lawmaker recalled that Baku’s “black list”...

There is little about the fragrant sizzle of oysters, or sheets of kelp drying by agave-fringed shores, that hints at a Cold War frontier. But on Xiaodeng, a rocky island off China’s bustling southern port city of Xiamen, seafood and subterfuge go hand in hand. Measuring less than a square mile, it is the closest inhabited part of the...

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO’s chief and new U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis have discussed military spending and combating terrorism, the source of criticism of the alliance by President Donald Trump. The U.S. spends more on its armed forces than the other 27 NATO member states combined. Many are increasing their budgets, mostly out of...

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO’s chief and new U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis have discussed military spending and combating terrorism, the source of criticism of the alliance by President Donald Trump. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s office said Tuesday that the two men “agreed on the fundamental and enduring value of NATO for...

Click here for reuse options! There’s been much hand-wringing about how the media should deal with the Trump administration. First of all: don’t get distracted. When you combine Donald Trump’s frivolous treatment of objective reality with Russia’s recent propaganda onslaught, it is unsurprising that many were tempted to...